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I DO love color!! and miss playing with watercolor. But this current sketchbook, a gift from a son, has fragile hand-made paper in it --- gel ink pens seem to work best on it. I could use the practise anyway; I'm not very confident using cross-hatching and stippling for tone.

Why? You can deal with it very well! I think it is a good practise if you have to do all the tones just with a pen! It´s pretty hard! I tried to do Brenda Swenson's 75 Day Sketch Challenge two years ago and it helped me a lot! Though I have to practise more!

For several years I have kept sketchbooks as visual diaries, celebrating bits of daily life.
I contribute to several group blogs and am one of 27 contributing artists featured in Cathy Johnson's book, "Artist's Journal Workshop".